Kruger & Scharnberg
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1893 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| management | Michael Sorge, Lars Kummerfeldt |
| Number of employees | 100 (2009) |
| Branch | Building materials |
| Website | [1] |
Krüger und Scharnberg GmbH Baustoffe is a German building materials retailer with products and advice on shell construction , structural engineering and dry construction , technical insulation and fire protection , fastening technology and facade construction materials.
The company is currently run with around 100 employees at locations in the Hamburg districts of Wandsbek , Winterhude and Eimsbüttel as well as in Roggentin (near Rostock) .
Company history
On November 1, 1893, Hugo Krüger and Franz Scharnberg signed a "Societäts-contract for the operation of a building materials business". The office was initially located in the Herrlichkeit 5 apartment building, while the warehouse was located on the Herrlichkeit 77 property. The spatial narrowness of the inner-city streets at that time hindered expansion and the business was relocated to Gertigstrasse at the gates of the rapidly growing city. In 1903 the hard stone factory in Eidelstedt was founded near Hamburg.
The newly built Osterbek Canal as a waterway and a steadily growing fleet of vehicles, with motorized trucks for overland routes from 1913, were ideal conditions for growth. Hugo Krüger died in 1916 without a successor and Franz Scharnberg took over his shares. The further expansion of the company was interrupted by the First World War and the inflation following the war presented the company management with severe challenges. Despite the lack of capital, after the currency stabilization, the vigorous residential construction activity of the 1920s was the prerequisite for reconditioning the capital lost during the inflation. In 1921 the oHG was converted into a GmbH. In 1933 a contract was signed with the Plewa-Werke for the exclusive distribution of chamotte ears in the northern German Reich from the Memel to the Dutch border.
The Second World War interrupted the construction work for years. The plant was severely damaged by air raids. All vehicles were confiscated or destroyed by bombs, and after the surrender, the occupying power confiscated the few remaining material. As a result of the currency reform that followed , the company again lost its business capital.
Once again it was the reconstruction of the destroyed Hanseatic city of Hamburg and the catastrophic housing shortage, which presented the task and the opportunity to rebuild. After the war, the first building materials that were traded were laboriously recovered from the rubble. Although the voucher system and the allocation made normal business almost impossible, the currency reform and the liberalization of the market brought about the decisive turning point and so the range was steadily expanded. The company Walter M. Scharnberg KG was founded in 1957 to sell these products. In 1957 she took over the Plewa agency .
In 1960 Gustav-Franz Scharnberg and Karl Drewes became shareholders and managing directors. The Fa. Betondienst was founded with production facilities in Hamburg and Bargteheide. With this participation, it was possible for the first time to meet the customer's request to install their own cement mixers on the construction sites. It was abandoned eleven years later. In 1960 the technology was introduced with the purchase of the first forklift . Ten years, 1970, later the company Baustoffhandel Alfred LM Lange was taken over. In the following year GF Scharnberg left the company and Karl Drewes took over the company shares. Twelve years after the purchase of the first forklift truck, the first crane vehicle followed in 1972 . In 1977 medium-sized building materials dealers joined the hagebau cooperation. In 1981 there was a change in the top management, Wolfgang Drewes and Klaus Wendland become shareholders and managing directors. Two years later, an office with a warehouse was built for the chimney department at the address Am Kellerbleek . In addition, the forwarding company Drewes & Wendland GmbH received a new domicile. In 1985, the opening of the found hagebaumarkt place in Ahrensburg In Kornkamp. Other employees in 1996 from the Department of Technical Insulation of company Horst Waldow taken. After two years, the company headquarters was relocated from Gertigstrasse to Schimmelmannstrasse 123. In 1999 the branch in Rostock was opened. And further employees joined the company through the integration of the Hamburg fastening technology from the Waelzer brothers .
Twenty years after changing the top management, Beatrix and Felix Wendland became shareholders in 2001. Three years later, Wolfgang Drewes resigned as managing director and partner and Felix Wendland became managing director. In 2005 the Ostkiefer timber trade was taken over by Mr. Seifart. In the following year, Gertigstrasse was reopened as a renovation center with a covered high-bay system. In 2008 the company took over the Fritz Lange facade specialist in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel. In the following year, another city warehouse with 3,000 m² of hall space was built at Stresemannallee 100. Klaus Wendland died in 2013. In 2016 the company headquarters was relocated to street Rahlau 59.
In 2017 Krüger & Scharnberg was sold to Bauking AG and thus part of the Irish Cement Roadstone Holding . Felix and Beatrix Wendland, who had managed the company in the fifth generation, left as managing partners and Lars Kummerfeldt became managing director.
Parts of the group of companies
Timber specialist Ostkiefer
Holzhandel Ostkiefer Kurt Seifart GmbH was founded as a company by Kurt Seifart senior in Hamburg. The name shows the focus of the business field: Ostkiefer initially specialized in trading first-class pine from East Prussia . The timber trade has been based on Poßmoorweg in Hamburg-Winterhude since 1930. Family owned until 2006 and since then part of the Krüger & Scharnberg group - and thus again part of a large family business. The Holzfachhandel Ostkiefer offers an assortment of panels, construction timber , joiner timber , floor boards and strips, including u. a. Skirting boards, skirting boards and profile strips.
Hamburger Fastening Technology Gebrüder Waelzer
In 1965, the Waelzer brothers founded the Hamburg fastening technology , until it was taken over by Krüger & Scharnberg in 1998. At this point in time, HBT (Hamburg Fixing Technology) was primarily specialized as a supplier for sanitary, heating, ventilation, drywall and facade construction. The Hamburg fastening technology offers special knowledge, especially in the areas of pull-out tests for dowel technology, fire protection advice and endoscopy in the spaces between the façades.
Fritz Lange facade building materials
Fritz Lange, b. 4th July 1866, was a brick manufacturer and director of the Friedrichsruher clay works, which had its seat in Wohltorf on the edge of the Sachsenwald. From 2008 Fritz Lange Fassadenbaustoffe belongs to the Krüger & Scharnberg group of companies. Fritz Lange concentrated very early on on facade panels, for example for the curtain-type, rear-ventilated and thermally insulated facade , which is still considered one of the best solutions in new buildings and renovations .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ KRÜGER & SCHARNBERG - The history of a traditional Hamburg company , Bauking AG website. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .